[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 140 (Wednesday, October 2, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S12159]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                REACHING ACCOMMODATION ON THE PARKS BILL

  Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Mr. President, I echo the comments of my colleague, 
Senator Boxer, on the parks bill in the hopes that some accommodation 
can be formulated in the next few hours that will give us a bill.
  One of the most difficult things about this body, and I suppose any 
other body, is that we do not always get what we would like to get or 
think we deserve in good conscience or what the body owes or what the 
Government should respond to. However, this is an important bill, and 
literally dozens of States are impacted, all of them positively, by 
this bill. For California, it is a particularly important bill.
  I thank the chairman of the committee for his indulgence, and I hope 
in the next few hours there can be some conclusion to this which will 
bring before us a bill that is significant for every Member of this 
body.

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